Plans changed.
On April 9, 2021, WWE dubbed the episode of SmackDown as "WrestleMania SmackDown" and the show was highlighted by the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal and the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Title match between The Dirty Dawgs (Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode), Chad Gable & Otis, and Dominik Mysterio & Rey Mysterio, and The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford).
According to Bianca Belair, the match was originally slated to be part of WrestleMania 37.
"In the past, people don't know this, but WrestleMania 37, he was supposed to have a WrestleMania match. He got gear made, he had family coming in. Things change all the time, his match ended up getting moved to the night before on SmackDown. He had every right to feel devasted and be down. He could have walked around like he had a cloud over his head, but the very next day, I was main eventing WrestleMania. That's the balance where he chose to be a husband that night and be happy for me and proud of me and celebrate me instead of being a worker and being frustrated about his situation. That can be very difficult to do," Bianca said on MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani.
Belair headlined night one of WrestleMania 37, defeating Sasha Banks (Mercedes Mone) to win the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship.
Angelo Dawkins previously commented that he wasn't upset at being left off the WrestleMania 37 card. You can find his comments by clicking here.
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